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Question 31

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A flashbulb memory is one in which ________.

A) vivid images are associated with everyday events
B) vivid images of procedural memories
C) you were blinded by someone's flashbulb and had to rely on other sensory information to form a memory vivid images of semantic memories
D) vivid images are associated with a surprising or strongly emotional event

E) None of the above
F) B) and C)

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Question 32

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With regard to memory, the process of retaining neurally encoded information over time is known as ________.

A) maintenance
B) capturing
C) sensory retention
D) storage

E) All of the above
F) B) and C)

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Question 33

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Maintenance rehearsal allows us to keep information in ________ memory longer than the typical 30 seconds.

Jamie heard about a divorce that was printed in the RAG MAG, which she does not believe is very reliable.However, over time, she forgot where she heard about the divorce.The fact that she forgot the origin of this information (and the fact that it was not reliable) is known as ________.

________ theory suggests that memories stored in long-term memory are not actually forgotten, but rather are just temporarily unavailable.

The ___ model refers to a continuum ranging from shallow to intermediate to deep, with deeper functioning leading to improved encoding, storage, and retrieval.

Your vivid memory of what you were doing when you watched the last presidential election is an example of ________.

Nanette highlights the margin-definition of terms in her psychology textbook; Nathan thinks about how each term applies to his own life or to other concepts in the chapter.Nathan is more likely to recall and use the terms better on an essay exam because he ________.

The serial position effect suggests that people will remember ________ items better than ________ items on a list.

The tendency to remember previous sad events when feeling sad in the present is an example of ________.

When you study in long, unbroken intervals of time, you are engaging in ________.

The encoding specificity principle says that information retrieval is improved when ________.

Research shows that when people are presented an irrelevant distractor stimulus at the end of a word list they must recall, it impairs their ability to recall the last item on the list compared to a control group to whom there was no distractor stimulus.This finding is evidence for which theory of forgetting?

The following descriptions are characteristic of ________ memory: information lasts for a few seconds or less, a large but not unlimited storage capacity, and transmission of an accurate but not perfect "image."

Memory tends to be ________.

The long-lasting increase in neural sensitivity during learning is called ________.

The fact that you can recall what someone said several seconds ago, even if you were absorbed in another task when he or she first said it, is explained by ________ memory.

Long-term potentiation is a result of ________.

A retrieval failure that involves a sensation of knowing something, but being temporarily unable to retrieve it, is called ________.

Loss of memory for events before an injury is called ________ amnesia.